Course fee

Participants from outside of academia should contact us for a fee quote.

The fee does not include travel costs.

Course description

Join us in medieval Visby this June to improve your R skills and have a nice time!
In Life Science and Bioinformatics, R is increasingly being used to transform and analyse data, perform statistical analysis and produce publication-ready visualizations. This Summer course will focus on advanced R functionality, to increase the participants skillset and understanding of what is possible to do today.

You are very welcome to apply or see the homepage for more information. Please, help us spread the word to interested participants!

Entry requirements

The course is aimed at both Ph.D. students and researchers within Life Sciences who are already using R for basic bioinformatics analyses and who would like to start using R at a more advanced level. In order for you and other participants to benefit the most, you should consider yourself eligible if you are comfortable with reading and transforming data, installing and using third-party packages and plotting using standard R graphics.

We offer places for participants from all over the world, but there is a number of places reserved for participants from Sweden.

Selection criteria

The course can accommodate 45 participants. election criteria include correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the course as well as gender and geographical balance.

Date and time

2018-06-10 - 2018-06-21

Location

Visby

SciLifeLab has been created by the coordinated effort of four universities in Stockholm and Uppsala: Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University.